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Jan 2016
42m 58s

190 – House (of Wessex): Everybody Lies

Jamie Jeffers
About this episode

This episode is going to be a bit different from most, because I’m going to be addressing something which has been bugging me about the 800s, and Wessex in particular. I feel like I haven’t done a good job pointing something out. So I’m going to explain something crucial about the house of Wessex and […]

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